How Not to Become a Victim - Mind's Self-Defense Techniques
What you'll learn
- Learn How to Avoid Physical and Psychological aggression using the power of your Mind
- Learn How to Control Fear during a violent confrontation while using Psychological Techniques to deter, confuse and control your attacker
- Learn How to Develop Situational Awareness while using Verbal and Visual Command to control your Space against an aggressor
- Developing Verbal Self-Defense techniques and Learning how to Program Your Mind to Fight or Flight
Requirements
- No Experience needed. This course is for everyone, no age or physical requirements.
Description
“How Not to Become a Victim” is an empowering online video course designed to equip individuals with the knowledge and mental strategies to avoid becoming targets of physical and psychological aggression. Created by Gianluca Zanna and Claudette Lyons, this course delves into the power of the mind and how it can be harnessed for self-defense.
Course Description: The curriculum is meticulously structured to build one’s self-defense capabilities from the ground up. It begins with an introduction to the authors, both of whom bring a wealth of experience and insight into personal safety and mental resilience.
The Most Important Weapon in Self-Defense: This section emphasizes the significance of mental preparedness as the foremost tool in any threatening situation.
The Most Important Muscle in Self-Defense: Here, the focus is on strengthening the most important muscle you need to avoid becoming a victim of violence.
How to Control Fear: Learners are taught techniques to manage and channel fear constructively during a violent confrontation.
Programming Your Mind: Flight or Fight: This part of the course explores the psychological conditioning necessary to choose between standing ground or evading danger.
Developing Situational Awareness: Students learn to heighten their perception of their surroundings to detect potential threats early.
Behavioral Detection: This module teaches how to recognize warning signs in others’ behavior.
Controlling the Distance: Verbal and Visual Command: The course covers methods to maintain safe distances and assert control through body language and voice.
How to Not Look Like a Target: Strategies are provided to avoid appearing vulnerable to aggressors.
The Distractions: learn psychological and physical distractions that can create a state of confusion in a potential attacker.
Verbal Self-Defense – Pattern Interruption & Confusion: using Pattern Interruption, NLP, and several Confusion Techniques to de-escalate a potential violent confrontation.
The course concludes with a comprehensive Conclusion and Practice section, where students can consolidate their learning and practice the skills they’ve acquired.
Overall, “How Not to Become a Victim” is more than just a self-defense course; it’s a guide to cultivating a resilient and proactive mindset to navigate through life safely and confidently. Whether you’re looking to bolster your mental fortitude or seeking practical self-defense knowledge, this course offers valuable insights for all.
Who this course is for:
- Anybody who wants to learn self-defense using the power of the mind to avoid and control violent behavior
- Older people, women, people who cannot train physically in self-defense and also Security Guards and Law Enforcement
Instructors
- 4.8 Instructor Rating
- 17 Reviews
- 2,635 Students
- 5 Courses
Born In Rome Italy, at the young age of 11, he grew up in the National Boarding School "Convitto Nazionale in Rome", and then he joined the elite Military Academy Nunziatella, the oldest Military Schools in the world where only 3% of the candidates are admitted each year. Zanna knows from his first experience what it means to deal with violent human behaviors and how to fight back. Before leaving Italy to emigrate to America, he worked for 15 months on the streets of Rome as a Roman Gladiator, besides doing gladiatorial fights he was dealing daily with street violence of the street thugs. In 1998 when he emigrated to America he worked for 15 months as Security Manager in one of the most exclusive West Hollywood clubs “The Mirabelle” on Sunset Strip, dealing with every type of humanity and violence that he was successful in never letting in the club for all the time of his contract. He is the author of the “Handgun Dry Practice System for Self-Defense”, “the Anti Bully Self-Defense System”, “Krav-Maga Body Weapons and Strikes”, “Self-Defense Strikes Combo & Cheap Shots”, “Krav-Maga Self-Defense for Women”. Zanna speaks Italian, English, and Spanish. Zanna also offers executive private security services all over the world.
Here are some of his certifications in the field of Self-Defense:
Krav Maga Black Belt certified in Israel with Master Alain Cohen (Master Alain Cohen is a direct student of Grandmaster Raphy Elgrissy and Grandmaster Raphy Elgrissy was the first student of Imi Lichtenfeld, the founder of the Krav Maga system. Raphy is also the longest Black Belt holder in Krav Maga history).
Krav Maga Military Instructor level 3
Krav-Maga Personal Protection Security Instructor certified in Israel with Master Alain Cohen
Krav-Maga Anti Car Jacking Instructor
Krav-Maga Air Marshal Instructor
AZ DPS Firearms Instructor #1702443
AZ Armed Security Card Lic. #175058
Arizona CCW #8210104
Handgun Combat Master
Protective Driving Operations Certification (PDOC)
Protective Services Professional Certification (PSPC)
Protective Pistol Skills (PPS)
UTM Certified Instructor for no lethal ammunition Force on Force training
NRA Certified Handgun Rifle and Shotgun Instructor#140927447
NRA Self Defense inside the house Instructor #140927447
NRA Self Defense outside the house Instructor#140927447
NRA Refuse to be a Victim certified Instructor #140927447
NRA Chief Range Safety Officer #140927447
Certified Personal Trainer with National Academy Sports Medicine #1190296287
MMA Conditioning Specialist with National Academy Sports Medicine #1190332207
Fitness Nutrition Specialist with National Academy Sports Medicine #1190316554
Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist Specialized for Sports Enhancement #11157
Distinguished Graduated Handgun at Front Sight Firearms Institute
Qualified Rifleman with the Army Qualification test
First Aid – CPR – AED certified by Red Cross #19600110677
AVERT Certified Active Violence Emergency Response Training with bleeding Control #368086
ASART Certified Active Shooter Armed Response Training
Expandable Impact Weapon Certified
Advanced Taser M18 M26 X26 Certified
Defensive Chemical Spray Certified with exposure to chemical agent
Mechanical Wrist Restraints Certified
Soft and Hard Defensive Tactics for Security Guards Certified
Israeli Behavioral Detection Officer certification by Aaron Cohen
Israeli Active Shooter Tactical Response certification by Aaron Cohen
- 4.8 Instructor Rating
- 17 Reviews
- 2,635 Students
- 5 Courses
Learning from Real Life Experience
From Near Death Violence Survivor to Krav-Maga Instructor and advocate for Women's Empowerment and Children's Safety.
My Story
I have personally found the importance of knowing how to defend myself. My experience of being attacked violently and almost killed brought me to learn self-defense. Since the violence took place in my life, I have committed years of self-reflection to face the reality of the effects of trauma. I am grateful to have received assistance from mentors and friends to support my emotional state after such a horrible experience. There became one clear choice for me, to learn how to stand up for myself by learning how to utilize my mind and body to protect myself and others. Today I train daily with Krav Maga Self defense and safety weapons training. these choices of self-empowerment offer me inner stability. I now realize how powerful we are. I have a direct and clear message to others, this message is, That each one of us ourselves is the only one responsible for rising in the face of danger and knowing how to protect life. Your life is valuable. Tomorrow is never promised, I invite you to stand up.
My Specializations
Krav-Maga Instructor training with Gianluca Zanna
I specialize in training Women and Children in self-defense based on techniques and principles of Israeli Krav-Maga.
AVERT Certified Active Violence Emergency Response Training with bleeding Control
ASART Certified Active Shooter Armed Response Training
Certified Hypnotherapist
AZ CCW Holder #11895208
Emergency Medicine and Hazmat Training
Presenter Northern Arizona Coalition Against Trafficking
Ambassador for Shared Hope International (Non-profit organization against Human Trafficking)